New Sites For Shakespeare
eBook - ePub

New Sites For Shakespeare

Theatre, the Audience, and Asia

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

New Sites For Shakespeare

Theatre, the Audience, and Asia

About this book

In the course of exploring the theatrical cultures of South and East Asia, eminent Shakespeareanist John Russell Brown developed some remarkable theories about the nature of performance, the state of Western 'Theatre' today, and the future potential of Shakespeare's plays.
In New Sites for Shakespeare he outlines his passionate belief in the power of theatre to reach mass audiences, based on his experiences of popular Asian performances. It is a personal polemic, but it is also a carefully argued and brilliantly persuasive study of the kind of theatrical experience Shakespeare's own contemporaries enjoyed.
This is a book which cannot be ignored by anyone who cares about the live performing arts today. Separate chapters consider staging, acting, improvisation, ceremonies and ritual, and an analysis of the experience of the audience is paramount throughout.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. NEW SITES FOR SHAKESPEARE
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. List of Plates
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. PART I Visiting
  10. PART II Returning
  11. Forward prospect
  12. Notes
  13. Index